Queer in translation : sexual politics under neoliberal Islam
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Queer in translation : sexual politics under neoliberal Islam
（Perverse modernities）
Duke University Press, 2021
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-224) and index
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Description
In Queer in Translation, Evren Savci analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP government. Under the AKP's neoliberal Islamic regime, Savci shows, there has been a stark shift from a politics of multicultural inclusion to one of securitized authoritarianism. Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups to understand how discourses of sexuality travel and are taken up in political discourse, Savci traces the intersection of queerness, Islam, and neoliberal governance within new and complex regimes of morality. Savci turns to translation as a queer methodology to think Islam and neoliberalism together and to evade the limiting binaries of traditional/modern, authentic/colonial, global/local, and East/West-thereby opening up ways of understanding the social movements and political discourse that coalesce around sexual liberation in ways that do justice to the complexities both of what circulates under the signifier Islam and of sexual political movements in Muslim-majority countries.
Table of Contents
Acronyms
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Subjects of Rights and Subjects of Cruelty
2. Who Killed Ahmet Yildiz?
3. Trans Terror, Deep Citizenship, and the Politics of Hate
4. Critique and Commons under Neoliberalism
Conclusion: Queer Studies and the Question of Cultural Difference
Appendix: On Method and Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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